Bent Tree Harbor Missouri Map

About Bent Tree Harbor, Missouri

Bent Tree Harbor is a locality in Benton County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 283. The population density is 52.6 people per km². Bent Tree Harbor is located at 38.2401°N, 93.4954°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 65355.

Bent Tree Harbor emerges from the quiet, undulating topography of the Missouri landscape as a collection of residences held in the embrace of dense, deciduous woodlands. It lies 35.2 miles south-southwest of Sedalia, MO (from Sedalia, MO: bearing 204°T), and is situated 17.7 miles east-southeast of Clinton. The terrain here is defined by a slow, rhythmic transition from high-ground timber to the water’s edge, where the Harry S Truman Reservoir stretches its expansive, irregular fingers into the surrounding clay and limestone soil. Light at dusk possesses a singular quality in this corner of the state, catching the limestone outcrops and turning the gray, weathered trunks of oak and hickory into pillars of muted copper. A few miles to the east, the Osage River carves its ancient, serpentine path through the earth, drawing moisture from the deep, shaded recesses of Sugarcamp Hollow and dictating the slow drainage of the entire plateau.

Human presence in Bent Tree Harbor is defined by a deliberate, low-density relationship with the Harry Truman Recreation Area, which provides an immediate, unmanicured buffer between private property and the public wilderness. This proximity to the reservoir anchors the local economy in seasonal recreation, shifting the pace of life toward the quietude of water-based leisure and the maintenance of woodland tracts. Beyond the immediate reach of the water, the broader regional character leans toward the plain-spoken pragmatism of the Missouri interior, where the influence of distant, legendary figures like the man for whom the local reservoir is named remains a persistent, if unspoken, point of pride. Life in Bent Tree Harbor moves in sync with the seasonal descent of leaves and the rising levels of the reservoir, a cycle that renders the persistent hum of the modern world remarkably thin and distant.

About This Bent Tree Harbor Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bent Tree Harbor, Missouri. Coordinates: 38.240137, -93.495392. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Bent Tree Harbor includes the ZIP code (65355), telephone area code (573), county seat of Benton County (Warsaw), and school district assignment (Warsaw R-IX School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.